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On February 27, 1860, in Cooper Union's Great Hall, Abraham Lincoln delivered his "right makes might" speech. Nearly 140 years later, in that same auditorium, the Performing Arts Library presented its public programs during the first two years of the renovation of the Library's Lincoln Center building. As part of the programs-in-exile, Songfellows, a quartet which grew out of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, was asked to perform Civil War Songs songs on a program titled Songs of an Emerging Nation. Songfellows are: tenor Mukund Marathe; tenor Gregory Davidson; baritone Jared Stamm; bass Ross Crolius; pianist Robert Rogers; and director Ross T. Crolius. The Library presented this program at the Great Hall on June 5, 1999. Five sections, plus an encore, comprised the evening:

Civil War Songs
"We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More," by Stephen C. Foster, 1862
"The Battle Cry of Freedom," by George F. Root, 1862, featuring Mr. Davidson
"Aura Lee," by George R. Poulton (arranged by R. Shaw and A. Parker), 1855
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," by Walter Kitteridge, 1862